After the great Ocean Road with Annett, the next day I flew to Perth. I was lucky to find my flight was still going as it was when the Chilean Volcano was erupting and many of the flights were cancelled. It said my flight was delayed by 2 hours, but in the end it was delayed for over 6 hours. There were only two flights that said they were actually running that morning (all the others had been cancelled), my flight and one to Alice Springs. I got chatting to quite a few different people waiting in the departure lounge so the time passed relatively quickly. Still annoying though, it was a very long day by the time I'd been at the airport for over 8 hours, a 4 hour flight and finding my way into Perth and out again to Freo to get to my hostel.
I had decided to spend my first week in Perth just relaxing and figuring out where I was going from there. Fortunately my hostel had free internet so I could do lots of research. I had a bit of a look round Perth one afternoon and took advantage of the free CBD walking tours given by volunteers. It was just me on the walking tour and my guide was a rather eccentric old man called Lindsay who seemed rather camp and when I walked next to him, he seemed to steer me into things like lampposts and scaffolding... I started walking behind him after a couple of times! Anyway, apart from the nudging into inanemate objects, he took me on a walk round some of the older buildings in Perth. It was interesting to hear about the history and of the buildings. The tops of the buildings were still in their original forms, but the ground level ones had all been changed to shops. The Town Hall had arrows build into the top of the towers, and its wondered if the convicts who build it did it deliberately as a sign of the convict arrows.
The next day I met up with my relations, Steve and Mal. I got the train up to near whey they lived and they picked me up at the station. We went to visit their son and his wife for a coffee, then we went back to Steve and Mals house overlooking the seafront. Then their daughter stopped by for a coffee.
After lunch we headed out for a drive down the coast and back to Fremantle. We stopped at the Marina where the aquarium is, Scarborough and Ca... where there's a giant sundial that I couldnt figure out how to read.
On the sunday I went for a walk round the Roundhouse (the old prison on Freo) and put my head in the stocks. I had a walk along out to one of the two lighthouses Freo has and took some pictures for dad.
I met my friend Lynne (who I met in Steward Island) and her two friends for coffee and lunch. It was really nice to see her and we had a lovely afternoon looking round Freo market, they have some really cool stalls there. Then we thought we deserved a beer or three so we headed off to the pub for Sunday afternoon beers :)
The next day I had a mini panic about where I was going to go next, I was thinking Exmouth to go and see the Whale Sharks, but then I got thinking about doing my visa extension work and thought Id be better off getting that out of the way first so I headed South to Margaret River instead.
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